One person’s analog trash is another person’s vintage treasure. If you have a pile of VHS tapes that haven’t been touched since the dawn of digital media, you might be able to make a fortune ...

The contraption worked by taking live images from cameras and converting them into electrical impulses stored on magnetic tape. Ampex sold the first video tape recorder for $50,000 in 1956.

Sometimes nostalgia comes with a big price tag. A sealed, near-mint condition 1986 VHS tape of “Back to the Future” recently sold at auction for $75,000, setting a new record for a videotape.

The VHS-Decode project is an effort to improve the archiving of old analog video tapes. Despite the VHS name, the code currently works with several tape formats. VHS, S-VHS and U-Matic are ...

If they’re on VHS, it can be a pain. Even worse, every year that goes by, those tapes degrade just a little more. Satish from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, called my national radio show for help ...